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In an office of 20+ developers on Macs, over half have had to get their keyboards replaced, and a few more just live with broken keys. This keyboard is truly awful.

After 10 years on the Mac, I'll be switching to ThinkPad / Linux / Hackintosh if the next MBP doesn't fix the keyboard issue.

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I spent 8 years writing Linux software on a Mac, with various configurations including SSH, VMWare and Docker development environments.

For a while I was happy about this state of affairs, but over time I became increasingly dissatisfied.

Late last year I started a new job and essentially demanded that I be allowed to choose my own hardware. I ended up getting a high-spec X1 Carbon and running a Fedora variant on it.

It works very, very well. And the keyboard is great. I won't be going back to a mac any time soon.

Have you run into any issues with Wayland? I've been running Mint for the past few years, but the lack of fractional DPI scaling is frustrating so I've been considering switching to Fedora.

I'm using Gnome with Wayland and I haven't had any issues. However, I'm not using fractional scaling either.

+ And 32GB of RAM.

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